Native Addiction Healing
This Podcast focuses on all aspects of healing addiction related to Native Americans. It seeks to understand pathways to healing from a spectrum of approaches, for example: evidence based; spiritual; cultural; traditional treatment methods; mindfulness; meditative, physical, nutrition to name a few. It will also explore possible roots of addiction. It hopes to draw from experienced professionals in the addiction filed and others by way of interviews.
Episodes
In this episode, I explore the connection between the disconnect from wisdom, truth, and clear vision and how this disconnection contributes to the pain that leads to addictive behaviors. This disconnection stems from the widespread cultural genocide experienced by Native Peoples in North America and other colonized populations worldwide, particularly through the boarding school system. These schools were designed to ...
Black Elk was an Oglala Lakota holy man who spoke about many topics in his book, "Black Elk Speaks." In it, he discusses the Oneness of the Universe. From this Oneness comes what is true, and what is true has the presence of peace. It is the experience of peace that validates what is true. From stillness and being in the present moment, troubled people find a deep sense of peace and an improved vision of sel...
In this short episode I take a narrow look at the nature of trauma existing within the mind, which exist within the spiritual realm, our true nature of being. The spiritual realm is the causation level resulting in the physical formation of things and behaviors. We should understand the conditioning of the mind through the human experience that offten results in painful illusionary trauma. Many people see trauma as a ...
In this episode I discuss skills to help prevent someone from taking the next drink or use drugs. These skills are commonly taught and practiced in recovery programs. I focus on two primary skills of boundary setting and avoiding triggers. Healthy boundaries protect us and avoiding triggers helps prevent thoughts drinking or using drugs along with avoiding cravings.
Change often occurs only when we feel enough pain. For many people the pain experienced through living a life of addiction to alcohol or drugs or any other addiction behaviors may lead to somebody saying to themselves I must change. Whether this change may come through a formal treatment center or through a self-help group such as A.A., the most powerful form of change will always be found from within the Stillness of...
In this episode, I explore the origins of pain that contribute to substance abuse in Native American communities. I examine the core source of this pain as a disconnect from a fundamental truth about oneness with the universe. This concept is expressed in the words of a renowned Sioux spiritual leader, Black Elk, who states: "The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of p...
The remembrance of wholeness, oneness is within each of us and is accessible by way of stillness of the mind. If oneness is the truth as expressed by holly men through out time and around the world, then just about all of our beliefs, thinking, and experiences here is misinterpretation of what's real. If almost all of man is perceiving wrongly it still results in illusion which still has not effect on truth.
Somethings are understood to work well and lead to healing at the deepest level. In this episode I weave together Native cultures source of spiritual awakening, healing, and the evidence base practice of Mindfulness. The Truth that corrects perception and provides a deep peace is within everyone, we just have to want it, reach for it, and practice it daily. Educating oneself on stillness of the mind does help.
How could problems continue to exist when we learn how to release the problem completely and replace it with a strong validating peace of mind. We don't try to fix effects, it will take your energy and have little results that don't last, we work with the causation of problems that truly only exist in the mind. Facts don't upset us, our interpretation of facts upset us.
To deal with any problem it's helpful to better understand the nature of the problem and possible solutions. In this episode I opened up the nature of addiction and the best possible solutions, as I have come to understand both. There is no one size fits all solution to any perceived problem, perhaps there is only what we are able to or are ready to comprehend at the current time with respect to how we perceive a...
What is wrongly perceived typically results in an Illusionary state of being, this could happen to individuals and almost always is the state of being for society as it perceives what is reality. This could be painful or a desired experience. What is true cannot be learned or unlearned, we can't acquire what we already are nor does illusions have any effect on truth. We can realize what has always been. The Ego, ...
How could we recognize illusions when it's all we ever seen in our human experience? We experience the absence of love of peace and yet we refuse to become aware of the true nature of spirit existing in complete peace and happiness. Through the steady practice of stillness of the mind do we realize the truth of things beyond words.
The most powerful form of healing involves looking at our miss-perceived illusionary thoughts in the presence of truth. The truth of our self and our nature is 100% unaccusable to our personality, ego, self, that we think we are. In stilling, quieting the mind, where our self-talk, the ego, continuously speaks so loudly, we begin to look at our thoughts and access healing, the unlearning of what is false and that&apos...
We all have a conditioned mind set heavily influenced by our environment starting from our inner utero experiences until this present day. Oppressive and traumatizing environmental experiences typically result in a mindset of victimhood; guilt; feelings of not being enough; insecurity; shame; unloved; fear; codependency and addiction behaviors etc. This mindset fights for your attention 24 hours a day resulting in per...
Addiction behaviors are an attempt to make things better and find relief from pain. In this episode I look at addiction from the causation level of the mind, the nature of pain derived from a conditioned state of mind resulting from the human experience. How could we recognize peace within us when all we ever known is the non-stop chatter we all hear in our mind. We have a choice.
Beyond Forgiveness:
Forgiveness is said to be one of the most powerful healing things we could do for ourselves, yet we lack a fuller understanding of how to do this at a deeper level. We could learn how to forgive in a mindful way beyond our thinking mind. Our thinking mind would rather haves keep our wounds, victimhood, and blame for others.
In this episode new ideas on how to approach the methamphetamine problem are provided. The World Health Organization states, "The methamphetamine problem is a trauma problem." Healing and preventative work with the young by providing internal resources based in mindfulness practices as a way of life, is needed.
The greatest form of healing is beyond anything humans can develop, understand or provide because the human mind's faulty belief system and rationale are so prominent, it covers up what is true. For this reason, stillness is a required state of mind to access our fundamental truth of being, a truth that has been within all of us since the beginning. Healing occurs within a shift to correct perception.
In this episode I take a look at trauma as it relates to addiction, effects on the body and mental functions. Next, I speak on trauma existing only as a perception making an illusionary experience within individuals and society when compared to the truth of oneness.
We believe our intellect, education and experience provide a great contribution to healing the mind, spiritual awakening and overall health. In one respect it does, on the conscious level to reason and question things, that's needed, and it provides good benefits, but then our conscious level of mind can only take us so far. There comes a point when we realize our thinking mind becomes THE block to our continued ...
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